Educational device



Nov. 12, 1929. AR 1,735,45

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Patented Nov. 12, 1929 ITE BAYEOND H. GAB

nnnca rxonan Dev-m- I Application filed January so, 1929. Isa-an mason.

This invention relates to educational devices, and its principal objectis to provide a simple, amusing and instructive device for theentertainment of children and others.

5 Another object is to provide an educational device having ictorialrepresentations of animals, birds, shes or the like thereon, of

which certain portions of the illustrations are contained upon insertsfitting-in .corre- 1o spondingly sha ed'openings in a main or basemember and w erein the correct assembling of the insertswith the basemember depends not only upon-the matching of the component parts of theillustrations, but in addi- 1 tion thereto the matching of certaininterfit a parts of the complete illustrations, and the marginal edgesof the inserts and openings in the base member being provided withinterfitting keys or tongues and notches whereby when a proper insert isplaced in a proper opening, the part of the illustration on the insertcompletes the incomplete illustration on the base member.

The invention further consists in the several novel features hereinaftermore fully set forth and claimed.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the drawing accompanying thisspecification in which-- Figure 1 is a plan or face view of one of 40the educational devices forming the subject matter of this invention,and showing some of the inserts removed therefrom;

Fig. 2 is a face view of the inserts which have been removed from Fig.1; and Fig. 3 is a detail horizontal section taken on the line 3-3 ofFig. 1. v

Referring to said drawing, the reference character 5 designates acardboard sheet or other base member containing on one or both 0 of itsfaces incomplete pictorial illustrations opening which has its 6 ofobjects, such "asaninials, birds, fishes, or the like, which'larecompleted "by, assem] bllng. with thebase member certain inserts as willbe presently. explained. Adjacent each illustration is a descriptivelegend 7 of the object depicted. Coincident with'-some ortion of eachcomplete illustration, as, for 1nstance,'w1th the head of each objectdepict ed, apertures or openings 8areformed in the base member inwhicharefcontained inserts, to

9, each insert conforming to and fittinginto v. a proper opening andcontaining; that. part of the illustration which goes-to complete the fsame.

The openings and circular and may be substantially similarin form, orthey may be'of different si zesfand shapes, if desired, andthe edgeportions'o'f the inserts and openingsare formed'with interfitting keysor tongues 10 and notches 11. In some cases the keys may be formed uponthe inserts and the notches may be formed in the base member, and, inother instances, the keys may be formed upon the base member tocorrespond with notches v p formed in the edge portions of the inserts.If desired, the keys of the several inserts may be similar in shape, orthe may assume various shapes, and thenotc es or keys in the base membermay be located at different so places in the edges of the openings.

It is tobeohserved that-each opening and the associated insert for anygiven illustration have their own peculiar interfittin notch and keydisposed at a predetermine place '85 about the circumference of theopening, and that an insert may enter in any one of several openingswithout registering the two component parts of the complete.illustration, the part of the illustration on t' insert with theassociated part thereof on the base member when the insert is laced inthe notch ocated at the proper place around the circumference of 95 theopening corresponding to the location of the key on the insert.

In order to obtain a perfect register between the parts of theillustrations contained on the inserts with the respective companion orwniun'rrn, rumors inserts are preferably but that the key will properlregister illustrations contained on the base member, the completeillustrations are first applied to the cardboard, after which the partsforming the inserts are punched out of the material with suitable dieshaving configurations conforming to the inserts. It will be seen,therefore, that when reassembled, the inserts fit perfectly in theplaces from which they were punched out with the component parts of theillustration in register.

From the above it will be understood that the base portion containsincomplete pictorial representations which may be completed when theinserts are correctly placed in the openings in the cardboard base, andthat the part of the illustration depicted on each insert, together withthe location of the key or notch thereon, serves as an aid indetermining the proper opening for the reception of the insert.Furthermore, when the proper insert is selected for a given place and isinserted therein, the interfitting key and notch arrangement furnishesmeans whereby the two parts of the complete illustration will registerproperly with each other.

I claim:

1. An educational device of the vclass described, comprising incombination acardboard base member having incomplete pictorialillustrations of objects thereon, said base member being formed withopenings coinciding with portions of the pictorial illustrations whencompleted, and cardboard inserts having thereon pictorial illustrationsfor completin the incomplete illustrations on the base mem er, the edgesof the openings and inserts having differently shaped interfittingparts, whereby the part of the illustration on an insert will completean incomplete illustration on the base member when the proper insert isplaced in an opening corresponding thereto.

2. An educational device of the class described, comprising incombination a base -member having incomplete pictorial illustrations ofobjects thereon and formed with substantially similar openingscoinciding with portions of the pictorial illustrations when completed,and inserts having thereon pictorial illustrations for completing theincomplete illustrations on the base member, the

ase member and inserts being formed with interfitting keys and notchesvariously disposed around the circumferences of the openlugs andinserts, any insert of which is capable of entering any of severalopenings without registering the part of the illustration on the insertwith the associated part of an illustration, but capable only ofregistering the associated parts of a complete illustration when placedin an opening where the key and notch fit and are located atcorresponding positions on the insert and opening.

3. ,Aneducational device of the class described comprising a base memberhaving i I v

